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A broken granary opens onto dusty empty stores and scattered shriveled seed.
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Joel 1:15-17

The empty granary

The Land Mourns · Joel 1

Story guide: The broken granary and shriveled seed show food disappearing from both field and storehouse. This material loss accompanies Joel’s fearful announcement that the day of Yahweh is near.

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15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is near, and it comes like destruction from the Almighty.

16Is not food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17The seeds have shriveled beneath their clods; the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are torn down, because the grain has dried up.

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